De:: Carmen Rodríguez <
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Fecha:: vie jun 24, 2005 3:29 pm
Asunto:: Multiculturalidad e Irlandés oficial en la UE pirrakitas
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A chairde,
La oficialidad de la lengua irlandesa en el marco de la UE está dando lugar a no poca controversia en Irlanda. Envío como información y reflexión esta carta aparecida en el Irish Times de hoy. Tá súil agam go mbeidh sé suimiúil daoibh(espero que sea de su interés).
Beir bua agus beannacht
Carmen
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A Eagarthóir, a chara,
As members of a group of Irish-speaking immigrants to Ireland, iMeasc, we wish to strongly dispute the insinuation in the Irish Times’ editorial of June 20th that English, to the exclusion of Irish, will be the sole language of choice for immigrants to Ireland. Our recently formed group currently has over twenty highly-fluent Irish-speaking immigrants as well as Irish citizens with at least one immigrant parent on its list, and we are in the process of actively collating further members. Almost all of our group are working at a professional level with the Irish language in areas as diverse as teaching, community work, translation, journalism, broadcasting, an Irish-language cafe, IT, retail, universities, drama, street theatre and puppetry. It is also worth noting that a number of our group were highly fluent or at least had some fluency in Irish prior to ever settling in Ireland.
Lest our efforts be tiresomely and patronisingly dismissed as "trying to be more Irish than the Irish", iMeasc was formed directly out of deep concerns as to where repeated attempts in the national media to use immigrants as a weapon against the Irish language, and on a lesser level, native Irish culture, could lead. The immigrants in our group are all working extremely hard in their diverse contributions to Irish-language life and culture in Ireland and deserve not to be dismissed as bizarre and slightly amusing, but on the whole irrelevant, aberrations, but taken seriously as a growing reality within modern Ireland.
Is mise le meas,
Ariel Killick (Cathaoirleach)
Alex Hijmans
Henry Leperlier
Andreas Vogel
Tony Pratschke
Chantal Kobel
Cóilín Ó Floinn
Déirdre D’Auria
Gearóid Ó Maelearcaidh
609 South Circular Road
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Dublin 8
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